When we went to the moon and realized that the Soviet Union had no realistic plans of getting to the moon, then we stopped going to the moon.

As children we all wonder - we wonder all the time. And that gets lost in adulthood. It gets beaten out, it gets filtered out or diluted out.

I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.

It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.

Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment.

What I’m saying is, when different experiments give you the same result, it is no longer subject to your opinion. That’s the good thing about science: It’s true whether or not you believe in it. That’s why it works.